This Might Make Life Easier

Hey, um.. I was playing around last week and figured out that you can make your own profile and then add it to the list of administrators for the blog. It would probably be a lot easier to do this than having to sign or name after everything we post. So if you want to [...]

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xX Congradulations Xx

It’s the end of the first blogging period (that’s what I’m going to call it)  and I just wanted to say how awesome we are.  Return of the Native was one of the best summer readings I think we’ve ever been assigned at PCA.  Thanks Mr. Green!  We just won’t mention King Leer, ok?  Haha.  [...]

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Heath pic

Here’s a picture of a Heath.  It’s in Wessex so it’s the same setting as RotN.  I call it “The Shire meets Braveheart…”
~ Jeremy Thompson **
** Mr. Awesome

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It’s 11:00. Things are always funnier after 11:00…

I just felt like it, ok?

Christian Cantle:
“My preciousssss!…finally I’ve won you back from those filthy hobbitses and their stupid little tricksies…I’ll never gamble with you again preciousssss….”

Wildeve:
“No, I don’t want Eustacia, I want Thomasin.  No wait, I do want Eustacia.  No, I’m married to Thomasin, but I want Eustacia.  But…what about Mrs. Yeobright?”

Diggory Venn:
“I’m coming [...]

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Decisiveness: It keeps you alive!

I just wanted to get this idea out there, and didn’t know what other page to use so…
I think it’s cool that the indecisive characters all kicked the bucket while the ones that stayed true to their original intent saw the story to its end.
 Eustacia – always switching men.  Hers is a spirit that will [...]

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Heres a short poem written by Thomas Hardy before he wrote Return of the Native
Its called I Look into my Glass.
I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, “Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!”

For then, I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait [...]

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Video

I don’t know how to insert a video so heres a link to a video about the life of Thomas Hardy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDVQ7rzbTDw
Mr. Green- listen to the words
Class- watch the video its kinda funny…and strange

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Picture of Wildeve and Diggory Venn

This is a picture of Diggory and Wildeve. Diggory is trying to ‘win back’ the guineas that Christian Cantle lost.
 -Katie A.

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Eustacia and Venn

I thought the similarities between Eustacia and Venn were interesting. They both have very distinctive looks that influence the way others treat them. They are outcasts. Reddlemen are looked on as boogeymen and Eustacia is seen as the witch of the heath. They both have been rejected by ones they loved (Thomasin rejected Venn at [...]

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Hardy website

Heres a really good website with information about Thomas Hardy’s works and life and links to other websites about it:
http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/hardy.html

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